THE Simple Cooking COOKBOOK SALE (NOVEMBER 2003) Post sale remainderslashed. listing. All prices Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover;order lf large-format; form sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover; lf large-format; sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. name address address 2 city/state/zip book # author, short title price 1 2 3 order of preference Subtotal $ . MA residents add 5% sales tax $ . Do NOT let my order exceed $____. Shipping cost* $ . Send me the invoice for payment before Order Total† shipping my order. * First book is $3.00, additional books are $1 each up to 4. No further charge beyond that. Sets count as one book. Cost of foreign shipments must be calculated individually. † Please send no payment at this time. Total amounts are for your information only, since the actual final charges will depend on availability of titles. Youʼll receive an invoice with the book shipment (unless you tick the box above asking that the invoice be sent in advance). At that time, payment can be made by check, money order, VISA or MasterCard. Cookbook Sale • P O Box 778 • Northampton MA 01061 2 3 or e-mail your selection to [email protected] Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover; lf large-format; sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover; lf large-format; sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. american/general 263. Beard, James. JAMES BEARDʼS MENUS FOR ENTERTAINING. (Delacourt, 1965, 398 pp.) Presumed first edition. Only James Beard, always the showman, could suggest sautéed squab as an option for an early morning breakfast or cold “baby” (one-pound) lobsters as an appetizer for a salmon dinner. Even so, there are lots of nice Beardian touches—Scotch whisky in the crabmeat soup, fresh basil in the pepper salad, Roquefort in the “cheeseburger balls”—to make it fun to peruse. The 100 menus cover the waterfront, from picnics (including a champagne picnic for six with potage Germiny and roast fillet of beef) to a New Yearʼs party for 20, with countless luncheon and dinner variations in between. Color photos almost all show the big guy himself, beaming over the fare. Dust jacket shows some wear around and the page edges are lightly speckled from age. But inside it is clean and binding is tight. hc $5.00 346. Claiborne, Craig, with Pierre Franey. THE BEST OF CRAIG CLAIBORNE. (Times, 1999, 936 pp.) Craig Claiborne, during the long period when he was the driving force behind The New York Timesʼ food pages, was on the people most instrumental in making our national palate more adventurous and, perhaps, more sophisticated. His gift, as I understand it, is that unlike most personalities in the food world, he was a reporter first of all, which is to say much more interested in other people than in himself. He relished other peopleʼs cooking. It didnʼt matter whether they were amateurs or professionals, famous or completely unknown, from Kansas or Paris—if they had a magical way with food, he wanted to experience it, and share what he experienced with his readers. Here under a single cover are a thousand of the resulting recipes, both old friends and many others that you may have never encountered before. Mint condition. hc $12.00 321. Copage, Eric V. KWANZAA: AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN CELEBRATION OF CULTURE AND COOKING. (Morrow, 1991, 356 pp.) First edition. This cultural observance for black Americans and others of African descent was created 35 years ago. Kwanzaa, which runs from December 26 to New Yearʼs Day, is not a religious holiday. The word means “first fruits of the harvest” in Swahili, and the event brings together elements from many African harvest festivals to create a unique celebration now observed by more than five million Americans. This unique and beautifully designed book provides everything you need to join them: stories to illustrate the seven principles of Kwanzaa, and food for the feast—more than 125 treasured recipes from people of African descent: Antiguan pepper pot; matoke, a Kenyan spicy beef and plantain cake; cachupa, a Cape Verdian sausage and vegetable stew; Grandmaʼs creamed cornbread; ginger custard ice cream; coconut mousse with rum-soaked cherries. Mint condition. hc $3.00 316. Editors of Womanʼs Day. WOMANʼS DAY GIFTS FROM YOUR KITCHEN. (Simon & Schuster, 1976, 221 pp.) The fascinating thing about books like this is how they invert the usual cookbook; here, main courses and side dishes are pushed aside in favor of appetizers, desserts, condiments, and snacks. Funny that it would be bad taste to give someone a lovely roast beef or a rack of smoked ribs, but itʼs perfectly okay to hand them a chicken-liver pâté or a sour-cream pumpkin pie. But perhaps it seems too self-indulgent to make these things and enjoy them all yourself. In any case, treats here range from appetizers and snacks (ginger-filbert cheese spread) through cookies and small cakes (almond- lace cookies, cinnamon-nut squares), pies and tarts (peach cream tarts, chocolate pecan pie), dessert sauces (Russian apricot sauce, chocolate-nut crackle sauce), candies and confection (chocolate caramels, Christmas jewels), jellies and jams (pear honey, Tabasco jelly), and pickles and relishes (spiced crab apples, hot melon chutney). hc $5.00 235. Franey, Pierre, and Brian Miller. COOKING WITH THE 60 MINUTE GOURMET. (Times, 1999, 322 pp.) First edition. Here is an impressively large, posthumous collection of over 300 recipes from master chef Pierre Franeyʼs immensely popular “60 Minute Gourmet” columns in The New York Times that have never before been collected in book form. Mindful of sacrificing goodness to speed and ease of preparation, Franey often turned for inspiration to the simple French cooking he knew as a boy. Still, the dishes here reflect the adroitness, flexibility, and creative thinking of the professional chef. The recipes, selected and updated by Franeyʼs close colleague Brian Miller, include warm fresh tuna and scallop salad with orange-coriander vinaigrette; duck breast with turnips and Asian spices; seared top round of beef with fresh horseradish sauce; grilled lamb chops with leek-and-tarragon sauce; spaghettini with vegetables and pepper-vodka sauce; and lemon and chocolate tart. Mint condition. hc $10.00 433. Sondheim, Sally, and Suzannah York. THE ACCIDENTAL GOURMET. (Fireside, 2002, 670 pp.) Okay, I admit it, my first impulse when I opened this book was to seek out and strangle its authors. Not good. The reason is their unseemly obsession with punning recipe titles. Open the book at random and you get: “Dancinʼ Chick to Chick,” “Corny Weather,” “In the Dill of the Night,” and “I Get a Cake Out of You.” This is just one menu and, believe me, they are relentless. But if you can get beyond that, what you have is a day-by-day collection of menus and recipes for fast, quickly prepared suppers for four (260 in all—the weekends were reserved for a follow-up volume). Each menu shows at a glance the equipment youʼll need, prints the ingredients all together so you can plan your shop- ping, and provides a preparation schedule (countdown list) for super-efficient preparation. And notice to bookʼs size: thereʼs a lot in this book to chew on. Lastly, of course, it provides the familyʼs designated cook with a nightly stand-up routine. “Whatʼs for supper, hon?” “Oh, ʻWok On Byʼ with ʻAwe Sum Sherbetʼ for dessert.” [Fade to canned laughter.]. Mint condition. sp $5.00 2 3 Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover; lf large-format; sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. Abbreviation Guide: hc hardcover; sc softcover; lf large-format; sp spiral bound; pb mass paperback. chef/restaurant 313. Martin, Ti Adelaide, and Jamie Shannon. COMMANDERʼS KITCHEN. (Broadway, 2000, 333 pp.) First edition. Com- manderʼs Palace is a New Orleans landmark, and a restaurant where native ingredients and culinary techniques are combined with the evolving use of contemporary flavors and ideas. Ti Adelaide Martin is a member of the Brennan clan that owns and operates the restaurant; Jamie Shannon has been its executive chef for eleven years. Their col- laboration gives an intimate look at the running of the restaurant even as it shares 150 of its best known dishes. These include their signature turtle soup (they use meat from farm-raised alligator snapping turtles); speckled-belly goose gumbo (substitute domestic goose); fried oyster salad; veal chop Tchopitoulas; onion-crusted rabbit with stewed greens; salt-crusted whole baked redfish; and bread pudding soufflé with whiskey sauce. The chapter on staff din- ners is a fine lagniappe. Some genuinely interesting recipes here. Mint condition. hc $12.00 228. Pintabono, Don, with Judith Choate. THE TRIBECA GRILL COOKBOOK. (Villard, 2000, 251 pp.) First edition. Quotes from the likes of Daniel Boulud and Georges Blanc on the back jacket; preface by Robert De Niro (one of the restaurantʼs partners); and a scattering of verbal celebrity snapshots—Michael Jordan shooting hoops in the kitchen with a pâté, in the company of Bill Murray and Dan Akroyd. The recipes range from the simple and tasty —grilled (the chefly word is “griddled”) (Black Forest) ham and (Emmenthaler) cheese sandwich, the secret of which is a simple dressing made of grainy mustard mixed with honey—to the head-scratchingly complex—beet gnocchi with braised oxtail and horserad- ish sauce, with 19 ingredients (including “3 cups braised oxtails,” the recipe for which adds another 14, one of which is “veal stock,” adding still more) and 11 paragraphs of directions. Most of it sounds good, to be sure, but itʼs beyond my ambitions in the kitchen. Hopefully, though, not yours. Lots of color photos.